马克龙：一位与特朗普打交道的大师

马克龙：一位与特朗普打交道的大师

在与特朗普打交道这件事上，法国总统马克龙可谓是得心应手。他如何面对这位棘手的美国伙伴呢？

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theatrical剧场的，夸张的[θi'ætrɪkl]

latitude纬度，界限，自由选择权['lætɪtjuːd]

cloying因过量而厌烦的['klɔɪɪŋ]

supplicant乞求者，恳求者['sʌplɪkənt]

ideology观念学，意识形态[ˌaɪdi'ɒlədʒi]

scourge灾难，祸患[skɜːdʒ]

geopolitical地理政治学的[ˌdʒiːəʊpə'lɪtɪkl]

Emmanuel Macron demonstrates fine art of handling Donald Trump（429 words）

By Gideon Rachman

Why is it OK for Donald Trump to visit Paris, but not OK for him to visit London? Despite the famed “special relationship” between Britain and the US, the American president's long-planned trip to the UK has been indefinitely postponed — largely because of the unstated fear that Mr Trump would be greeted by mass protests.

Instead, he has accepted an invitation to France — and could be seen happily reviewing the troops, alongside Emmanuel Macron, at the annual July 14 parade. The fact that the French president felt able to take a domestic political risk by inviting Mr Trump to Paris — despite the US president's 14 per cent approval rating in France — offers some insights into the fine art of handing Mr Trump.

Mr Macron issued his invitation to the US president from a position of strength. His first encounter with Mr Trump featured a theatrical bone-crushing handshake. To some this might have seemed like the diplomacy of the playground. But it sent a clear message. France was not going to be pushed around. By contrast, Theresa May's first visit to Washington featured the UK prime minister briefly holding hands with Mr Trump at the White House. To many in Britain, this looked like a cloying closeness with an unpopular US president.

The lesson seems to be that European leaders who first make it clear that they are willing to stand up to Mr Trump, then have more latitude to extend the hand of friendship. By contrast, leaders who seem to approach the Trump White House as supplicants are vulnerable to a domestic backlash.

This contrast is about much more than theatrical handshakes. It extends to policy and ideology. Mr Trump is a champion of nationalism and a scourge of globalism. Mr Macron, fresh from beating the nationalist Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, is carrying the standard for internationalism in Europe — alongside Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.

But the position of Mrs May is much more ambiguous. Her government insists that Britain continues to champion globalisation. But the Brexit vote has been widely interpreted across the world — including by Mr Trump and Mr Macron — as part of the backlash against globalism. Under these circumstances, a state visit by Mr Trump to the UK would raise all sorts of difficult questions about where Britain stands — in geopolitical and ideological terms.

Paradoxically, because Mr Macron is very clearly on the other side of an ideological divide from Mr Trump — he can risk standing next to him at a military parade.